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A player with a record to break? Good job the Flames are in town

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Calgary Flames @ Washington Capitals – 5pm MT

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TV Sportsnet West CSN – DC
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Something something defeat, something something close game. something something poor defence. Yay.

To the capital of freedom, as the Flames try to stop Alex Ovechkin breaking Sergei Federov's record for the highest scoring Russian. All those things that the Flames supposedly need to succeed (hi, mainstream media) are summed up in the following video.

Welcome to Russian metal. You will find yourself singing this for the next three hours, and you're welcome.

Season leaders
Calgary Flames Washington Capitals
Record
11 Points 22
29th
14th (W)
7th (P)		 Overall
Conference
Division 		5th
3rd (E)
2nd (M)
5-11-1
3-6-1		 Record
Last 10 		11-4-0
7-3-0
42-35-13
0-1-0		 Ov. Vs
Sea. Vs		 35-42-13
1-0-0
-25
2.41
3.88		 GD
GFA
GAA 		+14
3.2
2.26
Time On Ice/Game
T.J. Brodie (24:26)
Sean Monahan (20:09)		 Defence
Offence 		Victor Hedman (21:39)
Steven Stamkos (18:51)
Key Stats
David Jones (5) Goals Alex Ovechkin (8)
Johnny Gaudreau (13) Assists Evgeny Kuznetsov (12)
Johnny Gaudreau (17) Points Evgeny Kuznetsov (17)
Brandon Bollig (35) PIM Brooks Orpik (18)
Michael Frolik (48)
Sam Bennett (20)		 SOG
Shot % 		Alex Ovechkin (79)
Nicklas Backstrom (26.1)
Derek Grant (60.3) FO% Michael Latta (60.5)
Special Teams
17.39
8		 PP%
PPG 		23.4
11
Sam Bennett (2) PPG Leader Three Skaters (2)
74
13		 PK%
PKG 		84.09
7
0 SHGF 1
5v5 Corsi (min. 10mins per game played)
T.J. Brodie (55.22)
Mikael Backlund (53.23)		 D
F		 Dmitry Orlov (57.43)
Nicklas Backstrom (61.07)
5v5 Fenwick (min. 10mins per game played)
T.J. Brodie (57.66)
Mikael Backlund (54.83)		 D
F 		Matt Niskanen (56.98)
Nicklas Backstrom (61.76)
Save percentage
Jonas Hiller (86.14)
Joni Ortio (86.84)
Karri Ramo (88.76)		 All Braden Holtby (91.93)
Philipp Grubbauer (90.00)
Jonas Hiller (86.47)
Joni Ortio (88.71)
Karri Ramo (89.55)		 EvS 5 on 5 Braden Holtby (92.43)
Philipp Grubbauer (88.89)
Data courtesy of nhl.com and war-on-ice.com

One key stat to note there is Alex Ovechkin’s 79 shots. 15 of those came in one game. The guy is desperate to break that scoring record. The Flames can use that.

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Game recap

C'est la vie.

Projected lines

  • Karri Ramo starts again.
  • Deryk Engelland returns to the lineup, as does Brandon Bollig. Engelland replaces Smid, Bollig replaces Josh Jooris.
Calgary Flames
Left Wing Center Right Wing
Johnny Gaudreau Sean Monahan Jiri Hudler
Sam Bennett Mikael Backlund Michael Frolik
Joe Colborne Matt Stajan David Jones
Micheal Ferland Derek Grant Brandon Bollig
Left Defence Right Defence
Mark Giordano T.J. Brodie
Kris Russell Dougie Hamilton
Deryk Engelland Dennis Wideman
Goalies
Karri Ramo (s) Joni Ortio
Washington Capitals (c/o dailyfaceoff.com)
Left Wing Center Right Wing
Alex Ovechkin Evgeny Kuznetsov T.J. Oshie
Marcus Johanssen Nicklas Backstrom Andre Burakovsky
Jason Chimera Jay Beagle Justin Williams
Brooks Laich Michael Latta Tom Wilson
Left Defence Right Defence
Nate Schmidt John Carlson
Karl Alzner Matt Niskanen
Dmitry Orlov Taylor Chorney
Goalies
Philipp Grubbauer (s) Braden Holtby

Milestones

David Jones and Michael Frolik still stuck on 98 goals.

Other games today

The Blue Jackets head to Pittsburgh (5pm), the Red Wings host the Sharks (5:30pm) and the Isles continue their California road trip in Anaheim (8pm)

Join us in the gamethread, where we'll be cossacking.

by Liam McCausland

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